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GNOME 2.12 released

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2005-09-07 13:45. Gnome 2.x

Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.12, the latest
version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment.

Released on schedule, to the day, it is the culmination of six months effort
by GNOME contributors around the world: hackers, documentors, usability and
accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies,
artists, users and testers. Due to their hard work, we have another great
release to be proud of - thanks very much to every contributor!

You'll find plenty of information about GNOME 2.12 in our extensive release
notes, linked from the 2.12 start page.

All about GNOME 2.12: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/

Meanwhile, GNOME developers around the world are looking forward to working
on fresh new features for the next version of GNOME, due in March, 2006.

Counterpoint

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2005-09-12 04:22.

First, the home icon you're describing is GNOME 1.x's, and hasn't been used for a long time (The home icon is a folder with the silhouette of a house in white on it), and the current icon theme was new with Gnome 2.0, making it only three or four years old.

And I do disagree in general. While it's certainly not exciting, the current default theme is distinctive, and it stays out of your way. The colors are soft, and don't scream like many of the popular themes today. (I don't mean to pick on KDE, but the Crystal iconset is one of the worst offenders in this department)

They're also very recognizable. You can see the icons anywhere and recognize them as being Gnome's. Conversely, the top three rated icon themes on Art.gnome.org are takes on the Windows XP theme. Next is the BeOS iconset and then finally Suede, which basically follows the current style. While there's nothing wrong with someone using another Environment's icon style, I would definitely discourage making it the default.

Finally, I don't think the programming or office tool icons are that bad. Making a metaphor that's recognizable at 16x16 pixels is hard, and I can't think of anything better than a construction tool that's used to combine components into a more complete whole to symbolize programming. :) The office one seems reasonable too.. a piece of paper might symbolize it a little bit better, but sheet-of-paper are generally reserved for document icons.

So, while the current icons aren't perfect, they're certainly not the disaster you make them out to be.

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